Integrated spatial fire and forest management planning

Planning Under Risk and Uncertainty: Optimizing Spatial Forest Management Strategies

This thesis concentrates on the optimization of large-scale management policies under conditions of risk and uncertainty. In paper I, we address the problem of solving large-scale spatial and temporal natural resource management problems. To model these types of problems, the framework of graph-based Markov decision processes (GMDPs) can be used. Two algorithms for computation of high-quality m...

Integrating fire risk into forest planning

The present thesis deals with the inclusion of fire risk considerations into forest planning in Catalonia (North-East Spain). The first part of the thesis focused on the modeling the susceptibility of different kinds of forest to fire (Studies I, II, III and IV), and the second part on the inclusion of the acquired knowledge about fire risk into forest planning systems (Studies V and VI). The m...

Trends in spatial forest planning

Both mathematical and heuristic methods have advanced rapidly in spatial forest planning over the past 20 years. The review presented here is broader in both scope and depth (more analysis within spatial forest planning models). We conduct here a world-wide literature review and extensive analysis of the status and trends over the past two decades in spatial forest planning. In our investigatio...

Approaches to Integrated Strategic/Tactical Forest Planning

A Hierarchical Approach to Spatial Forest Planning

This paper describes a hierarchical approach to spatial forest planning developed by Remsoft that can be used to create harvest blocks which meet maximum opening, green-up, and other constraints. The approach relies heavily on decisions and tradeoffs made during long term strategic analysis to simplify the blocking phase and to ensure that the harvest blocks generated meet long term objectives ...